30 Minutes or Less

This is one of the rare cases where the supporting “actor” is better than the lead “actor” 😛 I had a stash of frozen mango purée that I had to finish up before we move back to Singapore so I decided to bake a Mango Pound Cake. Not wanting to dress the pound cake with…

Hello! Back to share another okara recipe! I stumbled upon this savoury vegetarian okara pancake recipe while Googling – and it turned out to be a very simple yet delicious pancake that is perfect as a side dish with other dishes and rice. Also, unless you tell your guests, I don’t think they will be…

Whenever I make crêpes – be it for a cake, a dessert or just with ice cream – there will tend to be a few crêpes leftover. Not wanting to just eat them with more ice cream 😛 I decided to make a savoury Egg and Cheese Crêpe Square instead, which takes less than 10 minutes to…

When I was younger, I’ve never really liked tomatoes so I never understood the appeal of this Chinese Eggs and Tomatoes Stir-Fry dish, even though I had a fervent love for eggs. Now that I’m more in love with tomatoes, I decided to give this a try recently and I was totally blown away –…

I absolutely love the days when my mom decided to cook fried bee hoon. Her fried bee hoon consists of only four ingredients (excluding the seasoning) – bee hoon (rice vermicelli), garlic, bean sprouts and the secret ingredient that makes it so good and delicious – Narcissus Brand Stewed Pork.

X has been playing around with several cocktail recipes recently and when he brought back a peach from work last week, he decided to make some Peach Moscato to use up the peach and peach juice we have lying in the refrigerator. Which is all fine by me because the summer heat is beginning to…

I have half an avocado left when I used the other half for maki sushi (avocado with smoked salmon – they looked horrendous but thankfully still tasted delicious), so the next day I started looking for a recipe to use it up. I have an avocado cookbook which includes recipes from smoothies to kimchi (yes avocado kimchi) to cakes, and one particular avocado…

As part of my not-very-working diet regime, I have been eating homemade granola and chia seeds with Greek yogurt for breakfast/brunch almost everyday. But once again, I got a little sick of this breakfast (it’s good to have changes once in a while, no?) and I was so craving for something warm – hence these cream…

Baking and cooking took a hiatus as I was busy with a commitment for the last few months, but now I’m back for good so it’s time to start whipping butter and searing steaks in the kitchen! But first… let’s start with a drink – a refreshingly delicious Strawberry Lemonade Moscato!

I received some dry-packed sun-dried tomatoes as a gift when my friend went for a holiday in Greece recently (thanks!) A quick Google shows that they are usually used in pastas and salads etc. So I made a very simple aglio e olio so that the intense flavours of the sun-dried tomatoes can shine.

As we are heading into colder weather, we will need a bowl of hot, comfort food more often. This is where the piping hot Chinese Tomato and Egg Noodle Soup comes in! This one bowl of goodness can be made in just 30 minutes and it will be gone faster than that, because you can’t stop slurping the goodness…

Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) is a popular Japanese savoury pancake said to be originated from Osaka. There are many variations of this delicious pancake throughout Japan and the world, but in general it’s made with cabbage coated lightly with pancake-like batter. Different ingredients can be added into the okonomiyaki – so you can easily create one that is your favourite!

There are just some classic dishes that I’ll never get sick off, and one of them is spaghetti aglio e olio. Spaghetti aglio e olio, which means “spaghetti with garlic and oil” in Italian, is a traditional Italian pasta dish originating from Napoli, made by sautéeing minced garlic in olive oil with dried red chili flakes…

There are times when I have a lava cake craving but whenever I Google for a recipe, the recipes usually make 4 or 6 servings at one go, which can be quite frustrating because all I need is just one! And it’s hard to scale these recipes down because I don’t want to have 1/2…

A few weeks back, my friends were coming over to my house and while I brought back quite a few packets of new tea leaves from my trip back to Singapore to share with them, drinking hot tea in this sweltering heat now is simply unfathomable. Iced lemon tea sounds refreshingly good, but I didn’t have mint/lemon on hand and…

Wait, what? Healthy ramyeon? Yes you didn’t read wrongly! This healthy, homemade kimchi ramyeon does not come from a packet with sachets of dehydrated vegetables and unknown flavourings – yet I assure you that it tastes absolutely delicious and satisfying!

This is my third time making kimchi from scratch at home (without gochugaru some more!) and one dish that I’ll always make with them is kimchi fried rice. I like to incorporate plenty of vegetables in my fried rice but chopping up cabbage, carrots, onion etc can be a chore sometimes, making fried rice a bit more time-consuming to…

And here is the continuation of the previous dashi post! Chawanmushi is a popular Japanese side dish that I made immediately after I made the dashi because it is one of my top favourite Japanese dishes ever. I love how the egg custard is so silky soft, tender and quivers under the slightest pressure. It is also…

Dashi is a type of stock used commonly in Japanese cuisine. It is the base of miso soup, Japanese stews, chawanmushi and many other Japanese dishes. There most common dashi is made with kombu (dried kelp) and katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes) and this will be the one that I’ll be sharing today. Ichiban Dashi (ichiban means “first”) is made…

And just like that, a month has flown by and we are now in March! Looking back at the past 2 months, I realised I have not been posting as regularly as I wanted to – somehow I couldn’t find the motivation to sit in front of the computer and churn out quality blog posts. Instead I had been…

Milkshake had been a drink I enjoyed tremendously during my secondary school days, with cookies and cream milkshake my top favourite! It’s a soothing sight watching the staff preparing my drink blending the vanilla ice cream, cookies and milk together, then squirting a generous amount of whipped cream on top. It’s such a comforting drink that I think…

I love eating tofu – be it silken or firm; deep-fried, braised or steamed; smelly or non-smelly! But finding tofu overseas (in non-Asian countries) can be really difficult. For the first few months when I’m here, I only saw tofu packed in paper boxes that don’t need to be refrigerated, which looks really weird. As it was also…

Are you a fan of Oreo? I’m not a super huge fan of them, but there will be times when I have occasional cravings for them. The small packages of 3 cookies make a great snack whenever my mouth is itching for a bite. And the weirdest thing is I like them without the cream, are…

I love potatoes, whether they are baked, fried, boiled, steamed, stewed or grilled – all are my favourite! This particular dish is one that my mom prepares often – it’s a very quick and easy potato stew with minced pork that can be made in less than 30 minutes. When I was younger, I would drizzle the salty and…

I’ve always like creamy salad dressings but tend to avoid them as they are not as waistline-friendly as their oil-vinegar based cousins. But once in a while, I will indulge in this rich, creamy, lemony, garlicky and cheesy dressing, and hey – if it’s delicious, it’s definitely worth the calories! I recently discovered that they can…

I’m here to share a quick and easy recipe today! I cook a lot of noodles dish for lunch (for myself) these days as it’s – as mentioned – quick, easy and satisfying. This noodles dish with cherry tomatoes, egg and spring onion is one example as I don’t have to de-frost anything (no meat involved) and it’s…

Buying chicken, beef and pork (we don’t really eat lamb) is easy, just go to the counter, ask for the parts and the butcher will give it to me. Fish, on the other hand, is a whole new different game. I would stare at the fish and the fish would stare back at me and I guess…